The Christie SeigneuriesDuring the period following New France's fall to the British, Lieutenant Colonel Gabriel Christie acquired five seigneuries in the Upper Richelieu Valley. They continued to belong to the Christie family until well after the end of seigneurial tenure. Seigneurial property rights were used, Nol shows, to control access to land, timber, mill sites, and other resources. Because of the increasing importance of these resources in the colonial economy, the